Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yamanaka
Hiroshi Yamanaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11613251Abstract: A parking assist system includes: an imaging device configured to capture an image of a surrounding of a vehicle; a display device configured to display a surrounding image of the vehicle based on the image captured by the imaging device; and a control device configured to control a display of the display device based on the surrounding image and to calculate a trajectory of the vehicle from a current position to a target position. In a case where the trajectory includes a switching position for steering the vehicle and changing a moving direction thereof and the vehicle is moving toward the switching position, the control device causes the display device to superimpose the switching position on the surrounding image and to hide at least a first part of the trajectory, the first part connecting the switching position and the target position.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Masaaki Kawano
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Patent number: 11613252Abstract: A driving assistance system for a vehicle, comprising: a detection unit configured to detect information regarding surroundings of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform driving assistance control based on information detected by the detection unit, wherein, when the control unit performs an operation of stopping movement due to an object detected by the detection unit during the driving assistance control, the control unit restarts the movement after a predetermined time elapses from when the stop operation is started.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Miki Tsujino, Yasushi Shoda
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Patent number: 11608113Abstract: To assist a vehicle operator in performing turning maneuvers in an appropriate manner under all conditions, a vehicle driving assist system includes: an external environment acquiring unit configured to acquire information on external environment surrounding a vehicle; a display unit having a screen displaying the information on the external environment; a steering state acquiring unit configured to acquire a steering status of the vehicle; and an image processing unit configured to determine a predicted trajectory of the vehicle according to the steering status of the vehicle, and superimpose the predicted trajectory on the information on the external environment displayed on the screen, wherein in case the predicted trajectory happens to be a full circle, the image processing unit removes a far end part of the trajectory to be displayed so as not to be connected to a start point of the trajectory on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11584297Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a plurality of imaging units configured to capture images around the vehicle; an image compositing unit configured to composite the images captured by the imaging units to generate a composite image; an image display unit configured to display the composite image generated by the image compositing unit; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about an object around the vehicle. The imaging units are arranged such that imaging areas thereof overlap with each other. The image compositing unit is configured to set a boundary between the captured images in the composite image such that the boundary is provided in a part where the imaging areas of the imaging units overlap with each other. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires the information about the object, the image compositing unit changes the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20230023377Abstract: A compound of the following general formula [I]: wherein each symbol has the same meaning as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutical use of the same in treating organ transplant rejection, graft versus host reaction after transplantation, autoimmune disease, allergic disease and chronic myeloproliferative disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Satoru Noji, Makoto Shiozaki, Tomoya Miura, Yoshinori Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuya Maeda, Akimi Hori, Masafumi Inoue, Yasunori Hase
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Patent number: 11554742Abstract: A head portion protection airbag device includes: an airbag, formed into a folded body being folded such that a lower edge side in an unfolded state approaches an upper edge side, wrapped with an unfoldment preventing tape material and attached to the upper edge side of the window, assembled with a twisting restriction member, which is configured to prevent twisting of the folded body, on an upper edge side of the airbag, and attached to the upper edge side of the window as a bag attachment body. A plurality of attachment piece portions, which are attached to a body side of the vehicle, are arranged side by side on the upper edge side of the airbag. The bag attachment body is wrapped with the tape material in a state where the twisting restriction member is assembled to the upper edge side of the airbag in the folded body.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ichimura, Hiroki Imaeda, Junpei Hamamoto, Makoto Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kato
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Patent number: 11548500Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to execute a driving process for autonomously moving a vehicle to a target position; a steering operation member configured to receive a steering operation performed by an occupant; a vehicle state detecting device; and a notification device configured to make a notification to the occupant. In the driving process, the control device executes vehicle speed control and steering control. When, during execution of the driving process, the control device determines that the vehicle is a suspension state in which the driving process should be temporarily suspended, the control device causes the notification device to output a prescribed notification and executes a suspension process. In the suspension process, the control device executes the vehicle speed control to stop the vehicle and stops the steering control.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Megumi Kageyama
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Patent number: 11541906Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control on at least one of steering and a speed of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, an environment controller configured to control an operation of a predetermined device for providing a comfortable environment of the vehicle and limit an operation state of the predetermined device at a timing when a user gets out of the vehicle, and a reproducer configured to reproduce the operation state of the predetermined device at a timing when the user gets into the vehicle when the driving controller performs driving control for moving the vehicle from a parking area and picking up the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11535171Abstract: A speaker disposition structure comprises a hinge pillar extending in a vehicle up-down direction; a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a speaker box fixed to the hinge pillar; and a gap portion for arranging a vehicle component at an upper part of a vehicle-interior side of the side sill. The speaker box includes an abutting part abutting the hinge pillar; an upper space portion that bulges inward in a vehicle width direction from the abutting part above the gap portion and that holds a speaker; and an extended space portion that extends downward from the upper space portion and is adjacent to a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the gap portion. A dimension in a cross section orthogonal to the vehicle front-rear direction is smaller in a lower portion of the extended space portion than in an upper portion of the extended space portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Mutsura, Kouki Hirao, Koji Wakamatsu, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Mayumi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20220405624Abstract: An acquisition unit 15a acquires data in a task. The learning unit 15b learns a generation model representing a distribution of a probability of the data in the task so that a mutual information amount between a latent variable and an observed variable is minimized in the model.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Tomoharu IWATA, Sekitoshi KANAI, Atsutoshi KUMAGAI, Yuki YAMANAKA, Masanori YAMADA, Satoshi YAGI
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Patent number: 11524650Abstract: A head portion protection airbag device includes: an airbag, formed into a folded body being folded such that a lower edge side in an unfolded state approaches an upper edge side, wrapped with an unfoldment preventing tape material and attached to the upper edge side of the window, assembled with a twisting restriction member, which is configured to prevent twisting of the folded body, on an upper edge side of the airbag, and attached to the upper edge side of the window as a bag attachment body. A plurality of attachment piece portions, which are attached to a body side of the vehicle, are arranged side by side on the upper edge side of the airbag. The bag attachment body is wrapped with the tape material in a state where the twisting restriction member is assembled to the upper edge side of the airbag in the folded body.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ichimura, Hiroki Imaeda, Junpei Hamamoto, Makoto Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kato
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Patent number: 11505178Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a communicator configured to communicate with a parking lot management device having a function of guiding a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle, and an abnormality determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of an abnormality in the parking lot management device. The driving controller is configured to perform the driving control based on guidance of the parking lot management device on the basis of information received by the communicator from the parking lot management device and to restrict the driving control based on the guidance of the parking lot management device in a case where the abnormality determiner determines that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yoshitaka Mimura, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11485280Abstract: A vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle includes: a first recognizer configured to recognize a person near the vehicle; a first determiner configured to determine whether the person recognized by the first recognizer is a pre-registered user; and a controller configured to control a lighting device to project a projection image to a position for which a stop position of the vehicle is a criterion in a case where the first determiner determines that the person recognized by the first recognizer is the pre-registered user.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11479238Abstract: A parking assist system includes a control device configured to control screen display of a display device, to set the parking position candidate selected by an occupant as a target parking position, and to control an autonomous parking operation to autonomously move the vehicle to the target parking position. When multiple parking position candidates partially overlapping with each other are detected by a parking position candidate detector, the control device causes the display device to display the multiple parking position candidates so as to partially overlap with each other and to be selectable.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Miki Tsujino, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda, Megumi Kageyama
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Patent number: 11475690Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize first content displayed on a terminal device, and an identifier configured to identify a person carrying the terminal device with the first content displayed thereon outside the vehicle as a user scheduled to use the vehicle or a person relevant to the user on the basis of a comparison between the first content recognized by the recognizer and one or more pieces of content associated with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11466163Abstract: In a coated article including a laminated coating film configured such that a first base layer 3 containing a lustrous material 11 and a second base layer 4 and a transparent clear layer 5 containing an organic pigment 15 are stacked on each other in this order on a coating target object, the same type of organic ultraviolet absorbing agent 13 having a molecular weight of equal to or greater than 500 is added to the first base layer 3 and the second base layer 4.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD., MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Yamanaka, Masaharu Arashi, Hiroshi Kiyonaga, Hideaki Tsujioka, Takakazu Yamane, Kouji Teramoto
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Patent number: 11465645Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle automatically on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer. When the vehicle is moved to a boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle and is stopped, the driving controller stops the vehicle on the basis of at least one of weather information at the boarding position, a state of the occupant recognized by the recognizer, and an environment of the boarding position recognized by the recognizer and determines a stopping position of the vehicle according to the environment of the boarding position or the state of the occupant when the weather information is a predetermined state.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11447131Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving control unit configured to control steering and a speed of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer irrespective of an operation by an occupant; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device. When the communication unit receives a pickup request for requesting the vehicle to move from a parking area and causing the occupant to get into the vehicle in a stopping area, the driving control unit causes the vehicle to move from the parking area to the stopping area and changes a condition for the vehicle to leave the stopping area based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer near the stopping area.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11440562Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to execute an automatic parking process and an automatic unparking process. The control device is configured to cause a notification device to output an end-of-parking notification when, in the automatic parking process, the vehicle has reached the target parking position and the control device ends the automatic parking process, and to cause the notification device to output an instruction notification to request the occupant to perform a prescribed operation on an operation member when, in the automatic unparking process, the vehicle has reached the target unparking position and the control device ends the automatic unparking process, and to cause the notification device to output an end-of-unparking notification when the prescribed operation is detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Miki Tsujino, Yuki Hara, Masaaki Kawano, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda
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Patent number: 11433881Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to control a powertrain, a brake device, and a steering device to autonomously move a vehicle to a target position; a display device; and operation members configured to receive an operation performed by an occupant of the vehicle. The control device is configured to set at least one target position candidate according to a first operation performed on one of the operation members and cause the display device to display the at least one target position candidate, decide the target position from the at least one target position candidate according to a second operation performed on one of the operation members, and execute driving control for autonomously moving the vehicle to the target position according to a third operation performed on one of the operation members, wherein the first operation and the third operation are an identical operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Miki Tsujino, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda